Protective device for cooking utensils.



No. 883,183. P

1). ELLIOTT & L. B. STANTON PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR COOKING UTE iNSILSr APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1907.

ATTORNEY ATENTED MAR. 31, 1908.

' war I I j UNITED STATnsPATENT OFFI E- DAVID ELLIOTT AND B. STANTON, OF SAUGERTIES, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS ONE- THIRD TO SAID ELLIOTT AND ONE-THIRD TO JACOB BRUCKNER, ,OF SAIK'HtRlIES. NEW

YORK, AND ONE- THIRD TO. CARRIE. D. .B.

NEARING, OF NEW YORK. N. 'Y.

rno'mc'rrvig mzvrca FOR oooxm o UTENSILS.

Application filed luck 26.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ELLIOTT and LEMUEL B. STANTON, citizens of the United States,'res iding at Saugerties, in the county. of Ulster and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve-. ments in Protective Devices for Cooking Utensils, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to improvements in protective devices which. are interposed between the bottom of a cooking utensil or the like and the source of heat, to protect the contents of. the utensil from being overheated or scorched; and an object of our in-- vention is to provide a protective device of this character which will prove simple in construction, cheap in manufacture and effi cient in operation.

In the drawings illustrating the principle of our invention and the best mode now known to us of applying'that principle, Figure 1 is a plan view 0 the cover; Fi 2 is a similar view of the base member; %i 3 shows in plan the members assembled l ig. 4 is a side view of what is shown in Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line A A Fig. 3.

The device consists of two rincipal parts, the bottom member a, and t 1e upper member or covert. The latter is formed with the side wall'or'flange c, which fits snuglyover the side wall or flange (11. Each memher is formed with apertures e, the a ertures of the member a being staggere with relation to the apertures in the cover memher I); or, as it may be termed, out of register therewith.

This device is placed under the bottom of the cooking utensil and serves to interpose a volume of air between the cooking utensil and the source of heat; and this volume of air serves to rotect the contents of the cooking utensil iiom beinglscorched. By'pro- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 31, 1908 1907. Serial No. 364,633.

viding the device with a cover, and forming a erturesin both the bottom and the top of t e device, the heat is directed towards the bottom of the utensil so that the efiiciency of th'e heating device is not lowered and yet at the same time a protection is' afforded against overheating.

, It will be distinctly understoodthat our new protective device is in no sense avessel or cooking device designed and adapted for the reception of foods to be cooked. On the contrary the device is shallow and ofslight capacity, so that the cooking utensil may not be held far from the source of heat. Hence, the top of the cover is brought close to the bottom of the base member so that the layer ofair (or air space) between the two is thin, as is shown in the drawings. Further, the base of the device rests directly u on the source of heat and is not separated t veret'rom by any flange, as is common in cooking utensils proper.

We claim: I

As a new article of manufacture, a rotective device of the character descri ed consisting of a dish-like lower member of 70 sheet metal formed with an integral upwardlyturned flange; and a sheet metal cover for said member; said sheetmetal cover being formed with an inte ral downwardly-extending flange which -ts snugly over said upwardly-turned flan e; the to and bottom of said device being ormed wit apertures which are out of register or stag gored with relation to one another.

Signed in the'presence of. the two under- 0 signed witnesses at said Saugerties this 22nd day of March, 1907.

DAVID ELLIOTT. LEMUEL B. STANTON Witnesses ERNEST Hassmcaa, HELEN C. Kenn! 

